Worship service in Spanish

Latinx Congregations: Case Study #1 — Iglesia Episcopal San Juan

Congregational Demographics, Congregational Finance, Congregational Vitality, Immigrant Churches

Immigration is a major component in the changing U.S. religious landscape. According to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of Latinx Christians increased from thirteen percent in 2007 to sixteen percent in 2014.[1] For this reason, the Religious Workforce Project includes qualitative data from eight Latinx congregations. In this post, I will introduce Iglesia Episcopal…

A Mobile Religious Workforce?

Immigrant Churches

Early on the Religious Workforce Project (RWP), like other congregational studies, faced a sampling challenge: what list of congregations would we work from for recruiting churches into our study? Some significant studies from the 1990s drew their research sites right from the yellow pages. Since 2000, researchers have been able to use newer strategies such as…